Court Adjourned In Effort to Settle Dispute

Today's employment court case between unions and Progressive
has been adjourned until tomorrow morning so that parties
can continue talks in an effort to settle the dispute, says
the National Distribution Union.

NDU National Secretary
Laila Harre will be available for interview at 3:30pm today
on the steps of the Auckland Employment Court at 280 Queen
Street.

The court case was adjourned from 9.30am this
morning to 2.15pm and has been adjourned again until 9.30am
tomorrow morning.

The National Distribution Union and
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union who represent
Progressive's 500+ locked out workers are seeking an
injunction over the lock out which the union's claim is
unlawful.

FIRST Union is New Zealand's second-largest private sector trade union.

Formed in 2011 after the merger between the National Distribution Union and Finsec, FIRST Union represents 27,000 workers in the Finance, Industrial (Textile and Wood), Retail, Stores, Transport and Logistics sectors.

FIRST Union is also affiliated to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and runs several networks including the Union Network of Migrants, the Runanga, Fono and Womens' Committee. In 2015 FIRST Union launched Samoa First Union, Samoa's only private sector union.

Join FIRST Union today for higher pay, better conditions and more say at work.

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